VENEREAL DISEASE
COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION FAVOURED. By Telegraph.—Prey’s Association. Christchurch, August 24. Tho North Canterbury Hospital Board decided in favour of compulsory notification of venereal disease. This was done on tho motion of Dr. Fenwick, who urged that it should bo placed on the list of notifiable diseases, “in order to drag it out of the sewer and fight it in the open.” Compulsory notification of tuberculosis ’had been a godsend to New Zealand, and he wanted venereal disease fought; with common-senso and sympathy. The motion was opposed by Mr. W. B. Leadloy, who claimed that compulsory notification would result in driving tho disease still further underground. He said that there were many innocent sufferers, and the disease had attached to it a stigma which would drive them either to treat themselves, to resort to quack treatment or to have no treatment at all.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 284, 25 August 1921, Page 6
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143VENEREAL DISEASE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 284, 25 August 1921, Page 6
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